Human ear FromMiddle English ere eare Old English ēare ( “ ear ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *auʀā Verner alternant ofProto-Germanic *ausô ( “ ear ” ) (compareScots ear West Frisian ear Dutch oor German Ohr Swedish öra Danish øre Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Old Irish áu Latin auris Lithuanian ausi̇̀s Russian у́хо ( úxo ) ,Albanian vesh Ancient Greek οὖς ( oûs ) , andOld Armenian ունկն ( unkn ) .
ear (plural ears
( countable ) organ ofhearing , consisting of thepinna orauricle ,auditory canal ,eardrum ,malleus ,incus ,stapes andcochlea .( countable ) auricle .1897 December (indicated as1898 ),Winston Churchill , chapter IV, inThe Celebrity: An Episode The Macmillan Company ; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd. ,→OCLC Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached myear , and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
( countable , slang ) police informant .1976 The Enforcer No I'm not kidding, and if you don't give it to me I'll let it out that you’re anear.
The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.a goodear for music
The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.1625 Francis [Bacon] ,Apophthegmes New and Old. [ … ] , London: [ … ] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, [ … ] →OCLC Dionysius[ …] ear to his suit.
1599 (first performance),William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act III, scene ii] :Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me yourears .
1990 August 19, Uwe Stelbrink, quotee, “Fear and uncertainty breed xenophobia in E. Germany”, inDemocrat and Chronicle 158 , Rochester, N.Y., page 5A:They don’t know if they’re going to have a job in a week or a month. They don’t know if they can pay the rising prices. Instead of the paradise they expected July 1, their total existence is unsure. That some foreigners get beaten—nobody has anear for that now.
That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; aprominence orprojection on an object, usually forsupport orattachment ; alug ; ahandle ; a foot-rest orstep of aspade or a similar digging tool.Coordinate terms: boss eye theears of a tub, skillet, or dish; Theears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow.
1886 Peter Christen Asbjørnsen , translated by H.L. Brækstad,Folk and Fairy Tales , page291 :When they got as far as the little valley north of Oppenhagen - where the land-slip took place - he thought he sat between theears of a bucket; but shortly this vanished also, and it was only then he really came to himself again.
( architecture ) acroterium .( architecture ) crossette .( journalism ) publication 's front-pagetitle , used foradvertising ,weather , etc.2006 The Skinny about Best Boys, Dollies, Green Rooms, Leads, and Other Media Lingo , page26 :In journalism,ears flank the title as boxes in the left and right top corners of a publication (generally a newspaper).
( baking ) curled ridge in thecrust of a loaf of bread where thedough wasslashed before going into theoven andexpands duringbaking .( clothing ) panels orflaps (protrusions ) of adiaper upon which thefasteners are located, which arefastened around the wearer'swaist .( graph theory ) path whoseendpoints maycoincide but in which otherwise there are norepetitions ofvertices oredges .ass's-ear abalone bangle ear bat ear bear's ear behind the ear bend somebody's ear bend someone's ear between the ears bionic ear blow it out one's ear blue ear disease blue-ear disease blue-ear pig disease bunny ear cactus burnt ear button ear by ear cat's ear cauliflower ear closed-ear close-ear cloud ear crop-ear cuff on the ear cute as a bug's ear devil's ear dog ear dog-ear dog's-ear Dumbo ear earache ear-achingly earage earal earball earbanger earbash earbasher ear beer earbob ear bob earbone ear bone ear-bud ear bud earbud ear canal ear candle ear candling ear candy earcap ear chair earclip ear cockle earcockle earcon ear coning earcup ear dagger ear defender eardrop ear drop eardropper ear drops ear drum eardrum eared ear fatigue ear finger ear-finger earflap earflare earful eargasm eargasmic ear gauge ear hair earhole earhorn ear hustle ear jacket earlap earless earlet ear level earlid earlike ear lobe earlobe earlock earloop earmark ear-minded earmold earmould earmuff earnut earpad earphone earpick earpiece ear-piercing ear-piercingly ear plucking earplug ear prick earprint ear range ear rape ear-rape earreach ear-reach earring ear rocks ears are burning earset ear-shattering ear shell ear-shell earshot earshrift earsies earsore ear speaker ear-splitting earsplitting ear-splittingly earspool ear-spoon ear spoon earspoon earstone ear tag ear-tag ear-tagged ear toilet ear to the ground ear training ear trumpet ear-trumpet ear tuft ear tunnel earware ear wax ear-wax earwax earwear earwitness earwork ear worm ear-worm earworm ear-wormy earworthy elephant ear elephant-ear tree elephant's ear external ear flea in one's ear get out of someone's ear give ear glue ear go in at one ear and at out the other go in one ear and out the other golden ear green ear disease grin from ear to ear hare's ear hart's ear have a word in someone's ear have one's ears lowered have one's ears on have someone's ear have the wolf by the ear have Van Gogh's ear for music hearing-ear dog helicopter ear hookeared in-ear in-ear monitor inner ear internal ear in the ear jelly ear Jew's ear Jew's-ear Judas-ear knife-ear knife ear lend an ear lion's ear listen with half an ear little pitchers have big ears longear make a pig's ear of make a silk purse of a sow's ear Midas's ear middle ear mind's ear monkey-ear tree mouse-ear mouse-ear hawkweed mule's ear musical ear syndrome music to someone's ears offensive to pious ears open-ear outer ear out on one's ear pig's ear play by ear pour honey in one's ear pour honey into one's ear put a bug in someone's ear rabbit ear rabbit-ear iris rabbit ear mite red ear syndrome roasting ear rose ear round-ear scalp-ear-nipple syndrome sea-ear sea ear smile from ear to ear surfer's ear swimmer's ear talk out of one's ear talk someone's ear off thick ear tickle the ear tin ear tree ear turn a deaf ear up on one's ear violetear walls have ears wheatear white-ear Wildermuth ear Wildermuth's ear wood ear wood-ear you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear ear (third-person singular simple present ears present participle earing simple past and past participle eared
( humorous , transitive ) hear .( transitive ) hold by theears .1964 John Hendrix ,If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook , page40 :Sometimes, the helpereared the horse down; and sometimes he used a blindfold.
2013 The Cowboy at Work :The general technique was to rope the horse around the neck, and, while one or two meneared the horse down (held him by the ears), the rider saddled the animal and stepped above him.
Ears of wheat.Middle English eere er Old English ēar Northumbrian dialectæhher Proto-West Germanic *ahaʀ Proto-Germanic *ahaz Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- ( “ sharp ” ) .
See alsoWest Frisian ier Dutch aar German Ähre Latin acus ( “ needle; husk ” ) ,Tocharian B āk ( “ ear, awn ” ) ,Old Church Slavonic ость ( ostĭ ,“ wheat spike, sharp point ” ) . More atedge
ear (plural ears
( countable ) grain plant.He is in the fields, harvestingears of corn.
fruiting body of a grain plant
Albanian:bokël (sq) f koçan (sq) m boçë (sq) f brolle (sq) f macurr (sq) m misërishtë f rrome (sq) f kacarrum (sq) f tallë (sq) f gruç (sq) m kallamishte (sq) f Altai:Southern Altai:мажак ( mažak ) Arabic:سُنْبُلَة ( sunbula ) Armenian:հասկ (hy) ( hask ) Aromanian:schic Azerbaijani:başaq baş (az) ,sünbül sümbül (az) Bashkir:башаҡ ( başaq ) Belarusian:ко́лас m ( kólas ) Bulgarian:клас (bg) m ( klas ) Catalan:espiga (ca) f Chinese:Mandarin:穗 (zh) ( suì ) Czech:klas (cs) Dalmatian:spaica f Danish:aks n Dutch:aar (nl) m Esperanto:spiko Estonian:viljapea Faroese:aks n Finnish:tähkä (fi) French:épi (fr) m Friulian:spi Galician:espiga (gl) f mazaroca (gl) f German:Ähre (de) f Getreideähre f Alemannic German:Chornäli Chornähre Gothic:𐌰𐌷𐍃 n ( ahs ) Greek:στάχυ (el) n ( stáchy ) Ancient Greek:στάχυς m ( stákhus ) Haitian Creole:zepi Hungarian:kalász (hu) ,gabonakalász cső (hu) ,kukoricacső (hu) Icelandic:ax (is) n Ido:spiko (io) Indonesian:bulir (id) Irish:dias f croithleog f Italian:spiga (it) f pannocchia (it) f amento (it) m Japanese:穂 (ja) ( ho ) Jeju:고고리 ( gogori ) Korean:이삭 (ko) ( isak ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:simbil (ku) ,simbil (ku) Latin:spīca arista f agna f Latvian:vārpa (lv) f Lithuanian:varpa (lt) f ( of maize ) burbuolė f Macedonian:клас m ( klas ) Miyako:穂 ( pū ) Occitan:espic (oc) Okinawan:穂 ( fū ) Old Church Slavonic:Cyrillic:класъ m ( klasŭ ) Old East Slavic:колосъ m ( kolosŭ ) Old Saxon:ahar n Ossetian:ӕфсир ( æfsir ) Pela:nɛ̠̃⁵⁵ Persian:سنبله (fa) ( sonbole ) ,خوشه (fa) ( xuše ) Plautdietsch:Oa f Polish:kłos (pl) m Portuguese:espiga (pt) f Prasuni:púsuk Romanian:spic (ro) Romansh:spia spigia speia Russian:ко́лос (ru) m ( kólos ) ( cereal ) ,поча́ток (ru) m ( počátok ) ( maize ) Sardinian:ipiga ispica ispiga spiga Serbo-Croatian:клас m klas (sh) m Sicilian:spica (scn) f Slovak:klas (sk) m Slovene:klas m Spanish:espiga (es) f Swahili:suke class5/ 6 Swedish:ax (sv) n Tagalog:puso (tl) ( corn ) ,uhay ( grain ) Tarifit:taydart f Telugu:కంకి (te) ( kaṅki ) Tetum:fulin Turkish:başak (tr) Ottoman Turkish:باشاق ( başak ) Ugaritic:𐎌𐎁𐎍𐎚 ( šblt ) Ukrainian:ко́лос m ( kólos ) Vietnamese:bông (vi) Volapük:spig (vo) Walloon:påte (wa) f påme (wa) f Welsh:tywysen f Yaeyama:穂 ( pū ) Yonaguni:穂 ( fū ) Yucatec Maya:nal ( corn ) Zealandic:aere f eêre f aer n
ear (third-person singular simple present ears present participle earing simple past and past participle eared
( intransitive ) This cornears well.
to put forth ears in growing
FromMiddle English eren Old English erian Proto-West Germanic *arjan Proto-Germanic *arjaną Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- ( “ to plough ” ) .
ear (third-person singular simple present ears present participle earing simple past and past participle eared
( archaic ) plough .1595 December 9 (first known performance),William Shakespeare , “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals) :That power I have, discharge; and let them goear the land that hath some hope to grow,
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( countable ) ear ( theorgan ofhearing , consisting of thepinna orauricle ,auditory canal ,eardrum ,malleus ,incus ,stapes andcochlea ) 2000 Da Jesus Book: Hawaii Pidgin New Testament [1] →ISBN page32 :You guys getears fo hear, you betta listen! He who hasears to hear, let him hear. ear
The name of theLatin script letterr R ( Latin-script letter names ) litir á bé cé dé é eif gé héis í jé cá eil eim ein ó pé cú ear eas té ú vé wae ex yé zae Note: The English names are also widely used by Irish speakers.ear
alternative form ofeere ( “ ear of grain ” ) FromProto-West Germanic *aur Proto-Germanic *auraz Old Norse aurr ( “ mud ” ) .
ēar m
billow ,wave sea ,ocean earth Stronga -stem:
FromProto-West Germanic *ahaʀ Proto-Germanic *ahaz Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- ( “ pointed ” ) .
ēar n
ear (of corn)Stronga -stem:
ear (notcomparable )
alternative form ofair ( “ early ” ) FromOld Irish an air ( literally“ from before ” ) , equivalent to moderna ( “ from ” ) +air ( “ before ” ) .
ear f
east Antonym: iar compass points : [edit ]
Edward Dwelly (1911 ), “ear ”, inFaclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary →ISBN “ear ” inAm Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary . “ear ”, inLearnGaelic - Dictionary ,2021 FromOld Frisian āre Proto-West Germanic *auʀā Proto-Germanic *ausô Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws
ear n plural earen diminutive earke
ear “ear (I) ”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011 FromMiddle English er Old English ǣr Proto-West Germanic *airi
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ere ,before 1867 GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY , page80 :Ear yersthei.Ere yesterday.Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland , London: J. Russell Smith, published1867 ,page37 
